Apply blizzards model to any other subscription service,you'd be outraged:
Netflix adds no new movies for a year, you click a new movie, there's a $5 fee.
You're in an accident, click your onstar button, but there's an addition $20 fee for them to help.
You turn on your tv only to find all you get are the infomercial channels. Every other show is pay per view.
See how dumb that model is?

Mages have never been bad really, but they are countered heavily by hunters. BM Hunters are also dominating the arena ladders right now which causes mage teams to suffer because of it. When 5.4 comes out though and Hunters go MM I think it will be back to the norm.

Mages have never been bad really, but they are countered heavily by hunters. BM Hunters are also dominating the arena ladders right now which causes mage teams to suffer because of it. When 5.4 comes out though and Hunters go MM I think it will be back to the norm.

1. My name is spelt "God" not "Loucious-sama".
2. I'm not a man, because man is inherently flawed. I am in fact a being so far beyond your comprehension that archaic constraints like flesh, blood, time and consequently, gender, have no meaning to me.

Mages have been consistently viable/good. They've never truly had something like s9 for warlocks or s9/s12 for disc or most of Tbc as spriest.

Warlock and Priest balance have been more volatile, but both classes have on average been by far the best representated out of all classes, even despite the fact that the warlock class have consistently been the least or second least played class.